Question

What is the slope of this line? (5 points)
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Answer 1

to get the slope of any straight line, we simply need two points off of it, let's use those two in the picture below.

`(\stackrel{x_1}{-2}~,~\stackrel{y_1}{-4})\qquad (\stackrel{x_2}{4}~,~\stackrel{y_2}{3}) ~\hfill \stackrel{slope}{m}\implies \cfrac{\stackrel{\textit{\large rise}} {\stackrel{y_2}{3}-\stackrel{y1}{(-4)}}}{\underset{\textit{\large run}} {\underset{x_2}{4}-\underset{x_1}{(-2)}}} \implies \cfrac{3 +4}{4 +2} \implies {\large \begin{array}{llll} \cfrac{7 }{ 6 } \end{array}}`